Crime

A 39-year-old Canton man who violently attacked and robbed an elderly Dartmouth man at a Dartmouth gas station in late 2016 was sentenced to serve 10 to 12 years in state prison, Bristol County District Attorney Thomas M. Quinn III announced. Robert Perard was convicted in Fall River Superior Court …

In the early morning hours on Saturday, Trooper Michael Leslie, of the State Police Shelburne Falls Barracks, was patrolling Route 91 in Greenfield when he noticed a 2002 BMW sedan with a defective license plate lamp and a loud exhaust. As Trooper Leslie was following the BMW he also noticed …

The two women involved in the reported road rage incident on Route 128 in Danvers on Friday, will be charged criminally for their involvement in the incident. The 64-year-old woman from Beverly will be summoned for the following offenses; 1. Assault & battery; and 2. Disorderly conduct. The 33-year-old woman …

Immigration and Customs Enforcement has placed a detainer in DAUDAH MAYANJA, 37, of Waltham, the man charged with raping a woman in his vehicle on the Esplanade. Additionally, MAYANJA’s bail was increased to $100,000. He is a Ugandan citizen. He remains held by Massachusetts State Police and will be arraigned …

Late this afternoon, Troopers from the Massachusetts State Police Violent Fugitive Apprehension Section, assisted by officers from the Massachusetts Department of Corrections, the Massachusetts Department of Parole, and Rhode Island police, located and arrested fugitive vehicular homicide suspect JAMES BENNETT-WERRA, 21. BENNETT-WERRA has been sought by authorities since March 27, …

An early morning incident on Storrow Drive in Boston, and a subsequent investigation by Massachusetts State Police, led to the arrest of an Uber driver for a reported rape. At about 1:15 a.m., State Police received a report that a woman had been sexually assaulted by an Uber driver on …

This is an update of a previous article about an active police investigation connected with a two-car accident killed an elderly woman and put her passenger in critical condition. There were two passengers in the vehicle that went through a stop sign causing the accident. One was arrested and one …

On Sunday, March 24, Wareham Department of Natural Resources Officers were dispatched to 3030 Cranberry Highway, Lakeside Trailer Park, for a report of animal cruelty where a man threw a dog into a dumpster located on the property. Officers responded to the scene and observed a man removing a small …

On Thursday, March 28, 2019, at approximately 12:45 a.m., while conducting a property check of Apponagansett Beach, Dartmouth Police Officer Michael CARREIRO observed a vehicle parked in the lot with two occupants. As the parking lot has time restrictions, Officer CARREIRO proceeded to identify the two male occupants, at which …

A Whitman man was arrested and charged Tuesday in federal court in Boston with sexual exploitation of children. Matthew Murphy, 22, was charged with two counts of sexual exploitation of children. Murphy appeared in federal court yesterday afternoon and was detained pending a detention hearing scheduled for today at 3:30 …